Re: [ivtv-devel] #100s 0.1.10-pre2 changes to buffer sizes, dma xfer sizes

[Jay R. A. <jr...@ba...>]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 04:15:30PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> It's a 2^4 == 16 (!!) contig pages allocation, that's bound to be
> unreliable.
> 
> Oh, and in my opinion 16MB is a _huge_ amount of memory for a driver,
> regardless of the system :)

FWIW, I'll be running 4 capture cards, and I want the the stable as an
appliance; I don't mind at all if he allocates 16MB of my 512MB main
memory as locked driver buffers.  Hey, Chris?  Take 32.  :-)  Hell,
give us a knob...

Cheers,
-- jra
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